Word: dander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this publicity went, it did Mr. Smith Goes to Washington no harm at all. But there was a chance that the picture might get the Senatorial dander up to the danger point. The Neely Block-Booking Bill, now locked up in the House Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee, would prevent big movie producers from compelling exhibitors to book a whole list of pictures in order to get one on the list which they want. Hollywood would much prefer to have the Neely bill stay locked up. Last week irate Senators talked of getting...
...upon Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's policy of "appeasing" Fascism. Instead of being told that they should revamp their views to fit Washington's, they persuaded the President to leave foreign policy out of his Chapel Hill speech (TIME, Dec. 12), and further to soften his democratic dander last week...
...reached the rendezvous by secret signs, sat on tiers of benches around a sand-covered circular pit. Eagerly they watched two handlers with bright-colored cocks on their arms advance to the centre of the pit, let their fighters peck at one another to get up their dander. There were no bookmakers. Bets (some as high as $100) were verbal, made with one's neighbor on the basis of the cocks' breeding or their fighting spirit in the centre of the pit. Then, at a command from the referee, the handlers returned to opposite sides...
Although reporters found Rexist Degrelle looking utterly sunk and blaming his defeat on the lack of silence from Malines, his Fascist dander was soon up again, and Berlin was expected to pour heavy contributions into fresh efforts to turn Belgium Rexist. Exulted Victor van Zeeland: "The result has exceeded my wildest hopes! And now to work-all together, for King, Law and Liberty...
...backwoods" for presuming to call your hand on the misuse of the descriptive adjective, and you'd probably be right, but I ain't a-gonna stand by and let you brand a progressive organization that serves a progressive public as "backwoods," 'thout gittin' my dander...